Hellfire Peninsula was awesome. I stayed there all the way to 63, almost 64 on my first trip through back at BC launch.

I liked Borean Tundra, but after doing it on 10-12 characters (plus beta on 2-3 characters!) I just absolutely cannot stand it. The Nexus island area triggers my gag reflex to this day. I find it really ironic that it's quest achievement is called "Nothing Boring about Borean". I beg to differ!

Howling Fjord without a doubt. The atmosphere, the music... It was like I could *smell* the sharp, cold northen air.
Jade Forest is a very close second.

Though every zone had something going for it, though.
- Stepping through the Dark Portal for the first time was amazing. (Seeing the red lands of Outland that you knew from War3 or War2, looking back at how immensely large the Dark Portal was from Outland's side...)
- Mount Hyjal living up to the nature-ashenvale-esque expectations and seeing the layout in the present from what you knew of Mount Hyjal's past (in the TBC raid)...
- Vashjir's story being pretty awesome that, for the first time ever, you really, *really* felt in over your head and suffering several defeats and setbacks just because you were *definitely* in Naga territory and they had the upper hand in this environment...

Only one I never really got into was Boring Tundra. Though I liked Coldarra.

If World of Warcraft has taught me anything, it's that teaching a crowd something is far harder than teaching individuals.

Hellfire Peninsula, Howling Fjord, and Vashj'ir from this list are great. I loved these zones so much when I go through them, I love to do them over and over. Odd, because some of the zones in those expansions just bore the shit out of me.

"Your name was stolen? I see... Well, I guess that happens from time to time..."

Was I the only person ever to like Borean Tundra? The place had an atmosphere, and the fact that most players avoided it added to its desolate feeling. Plus there were some excellent quest lines there.

But I concede, Howling Fjord is the best expansion starting zone. Just hands down, especially on Alliance side. That intro on the boat hasn't been bested by any expansion since.

Going along from favourite end zones, I figured why not ask about those starting zones we all come to do as well.
I'm excluding any character starting zone because theres far to many to fit on a list including expansion zones, so forgetting all character start zones, and dk ones, which expansion starting zone did you like the most, perhaps the first time you did it or still look forward to getting to now.

jade forest. after a couple of quests, it really opens up to be done in any order, it's got some different quests rather than just kill x, collect y etc. also big props to DK starting zone, would be my favourite but it makes me have to play a DK so... yeah. loses points for that xD

Howling Fjord, no doubt in my mind. Though part of my likes hellfire, just becasue it was so damn different from anything else in the game up till that point, if for no other reason the sky.

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